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Hair parter (gravoir) (Front)

Hair parter (gravoir) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre; on loan to the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Musée de Cluny

OA 7281

Ivory

Height: 170mm
Width: 18mm
Depth: 17mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); youth kneeling before a lady.

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris?, c. 1320-1340.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Tip cracked.

Provenance
Collection of Félix Doistau, Paris; gift of Félix Doistau, 1919; on loan to the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Musée de Cluny since 1956, renewed by arrêté of 10 July 1986.

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 172.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 418; II, no. 1134.
E. Sears, 'Ivory and Ivory Workers in Medieval Paris', in Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, fig. II-3.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 269.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 220.


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